Common exoplanet 22 EP

Kepler-1979 b

RA 289.8429° · Dec 38.3096° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges

22 pts · Common

Common 24 pts → Uncommon

Distant (>1000 ly) +10
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4
Found by Kepler +3

Total score 22

2 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Found by Kepler · +3
Distant (>1000 ly) · +10

Trivia

Could we get there?

Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 61.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 5.5 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 35.1 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 3510 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. Its light left before the last ice age ended.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 7021 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 18.5 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 29.3× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 25.2 thousand Earths could fit inside it.
Temperature. A scorching 410°C on average.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.

Properties

discovery facility: Kepler
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 3510.3192
eccentricity: 0
eq temp k: 683
insolation: 51.32
name: Kepler-1979 b
orbital period days: 18.5085
radius earth: 29.33
sys num planets: 1

About Kepler-1979 b

Kepler-1979 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 3,510.3 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 683 K, spans roughly 29.33 Earth radii and completes an orbit every 18.51 days.

About 29.3× the width of Earth.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-1979 b is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why Kepler-1979 b is a common exoplanet

Kepler-1979 b scores 22 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Found by Kepler and Distant (>1000 ly) — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.